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Excalidraw alternatives
The best Excalidraw alternatives in Collab, ranked by Sparkpulse's velocity_score.
About Excalidraw
Excalidraw library cadence is glacial — v0.18 in March 2025, then silence; feed is mostly GitHub-profile noise.
The captured changelog tracks the npm library at github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw, not the hosted app at excalidraw.com. The library has shipped four substantive releases over two-and-a-half years: v0.16.1 (Sep 2023), v0.17.0 (Nov 2023), v0.17.3 (Feb 2024), and v0.18.0 (March 2025). The latest entry is from April 2026 but is a GitHub-profile scraping artifact, not a release. Half the feed is GitHub user-profile pages ('Sorry, something went wrong') that landed instead of release content.
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Top 12 alternatives to Excalidraw
Ranked by recent ship velocity. Tap any card for the full editorial breakdown, or pivot to a head-to-head.
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Mattermost ships v11.8 compliance controls amid heavy sovereign-defence content
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SiYuan's 3.7.0 turns the note-taker into a scriptable, extensible platform
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Rocket.Chat is methodically migrating off Meteor DDP toward a REST core
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Simpplr bets the intranet's future on governing the AI already inside it
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Miro is turning its canvas into an AI prototyping surface, now wired to coding agents.
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Skedda keeps widening from desk booking toward full workplace operations.
COMMS
Slack is turning its app platform into an AI-agent surface — MCP on both ends, richer Block Kit.
PM
Asana is building the meters and guardrails for its AI Studio credit economy.
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Document360 is betting its docs platform on Eddy AI and an increasingly agentic MCP server.
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Interact pushes agentic AI: Spring Launch ships Action Agent and Workday workflows
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Anytype's 0.55 cycle is a steady grind on chat, with code blocks the headline
Frequently asked questions
What are the best alternatives to Excalidraw?
The top Excalidraw alternatives we currently track in Collab are GitHub, Mattermost, SiYuan, Rocket.Chat, Simpplr, ranked by recent ship velocity.
How is this list of Excalidraw alternatives ranked?
Alternatives are ranked by Sparkpulse's velocity_score — release cadence + 30-day spark count + sector-relative ship rate.
Can I compare Excalidraw directly with one of these alternatives?
Yes — every card has a "Compare with Excalidraw" link to a side-by-side /compare page.